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Federal Dollars, Federal Rules

Federal Dollars, Federal Rules

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South Dakota legislators will have to decide this session how to spend hundreds of millions of federal Covid-19 dollars.

Senator Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says there are rules will all the federal funds….

Hunhoff, Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Appropriations, says the federal rules continue to change….

Hunhoff says over nine hundred million dollars will go to long term infrastructure projects….

Hunhoff says all of the one-time projects will be folded into the budget process at the end of the session next month.

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